Host: National Committee for IUTAM
Co-host: The Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, The Japanese Geotechnical Society, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Japan Association for Wind Engineering, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Meteorological Society of Japan, The Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, Japan Society for Computational Methods in Engineering, Architectural Institute of Japan, Atomic Energy Society of Japan, The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow, Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering, The Mathematical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers, The Heat Transfer Society of Japan, The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering
Particle and cell positon control and sorting system is developed in the present work by exerting dielectrophoretic force on particle using rail-type, ladder-type and flip-type electrodes. In this study, the technology that can control the space and time intervals of particles flowing in microchannel flow and their timing (alignment control) is described. This is achieved by controlling the time characteristic of acceleration and deceleration forces exerted on particles using dielectrophoretic force and ladder-type electrodes. Particle motion and alignment performance are measured using high-speed camera. Further, perturbation analysis is made to solve and understand particle motion and alignment physics and to discuss their instability and alignment characteristics.